Biography and non-fiction prose

The first book in a new series by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Conversations with God.

Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world.

Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature.

In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival.

Who was Paul; what did he do, what did he write?

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education.

Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence.

'Truly compelling.

Soul Mates of the Lost Generation recovers for contemporary readers one of the last great collections of letters of the Jazz Age.

Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), The Coast Road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today.

WithEmpowering Memory and Movement, Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza completes a three-volume look across her influential work and career.

This title explores why Christians have different ways of looking at time, at how the life of the church is ordered and organized by days, weeks, seasons, and years.

Jesus’ words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and the horrors of the twentieth-century Holocaust.

The Best in Show series is an outstanding success.

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

After ten years in youth ministry, Michael Novelli felt like he had tried everything to help his students connect with the Bible.

The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on them.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

Discussions surrounding the veil often run along essentialist and ahistorical lines, associating Islam with oppression, shame, and honor.

A Founding Father, a patriot in the Revolutionary War, a delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention, and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the U.

Key to a theology of scripture are the important issues of history, consciousness, rhetoric, and how theology functions in relation to interpretation of Christianitys religious texts.

Was Esther uniquean anomaly in patriarchal society?

Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by nave and outdated exegesis.

Practical help, encouragement, preparation exercises, and spiritual wisdom for those who serve as readers in worship.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare.

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The story of Abraham and Isaac is a story of near universal importance.

Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as “laconic,” “terse,” or “economical.

1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of the development of early Judaism and Christian origins.

What comes to mind when you hear student-centered learning?

Walter Brueggemann's magisterial and influential Theology of the Old Testament.

What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the more dramatic, forceful "e;mighty acts of God"e; to the more subdued, but more realistic themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible?

At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others.

Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding.

Traditional books on preaching a book of the Bible often look at broad themes of the text with little explicit advice about preaching individual passages.

Readings from Acts are offered only during Easter, so how can preachers make this important book come alive throughout the church year?

The Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship, enabling readers to interpret Scripture for a complex and pluralistic world.

Despite the introduction of new technologies for classrooms, many seminary courses still utilize primarily auditory methods to convey content.

Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "e;womens roles"e; in the Roman worlddiscussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her viewKatherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.

More extraordinary but true stories from London's history.

Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have traced out the rich and complex traditions of biblical interpretation in Second Temple Judaism.

Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenzas work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the theological and ecclesial setting of today.

One of the most interesting questions facing New Testament scholarsHow did Christianity emerge from Judaism?

The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity.